Hello to you all!
I just thought it might be nice to show some photos of my “mysterious girls” from the beginning of this thread. They are fully grown now, and I think I’ll show you some pictures of the adults. I have only three of them by now – I am ashamed to say that one of them got lost during moving to a new tank ……….. could’nt find her anymore despite of looking through all leaf litter and fibres I removed from the old tank ….
They have grown to very large, stout paros. Similar in size to my adult quindecim female but not as slim as quindecim, with a much higher body profile.
To me the fish look slightly different – so I think the one in the middle has noticeably long fin rays in the dorsal fin, which surmount the upper margin of the fin. Here another picture of this female:
Another female shows a black dot at the hind end of the dorsal fin, not very distinctive, but still visible:
I am very interested in what you think of the girls now ………… 😉